Live on £4000 for a Year, 2009 Challenge, part 1

liloandstitch

Thriftylass- I am so sorry for your loss, you and your OH take care of yourselves.

Redglass, I WANT that Woodstore!!!!!!!!!! Sounds Lush and thank you for the PM will look at it.

A definately not NSD yesterday as went to Ikea - how do you go there and NOT spend money!! A definate hole in the budget, at £108 but I have got 35 metres of material to replace the blinds in the conservatory (48) and a new unit for DS room to store all his toys, loads of paper napkins and some extra china to add to our existing set - so a good haul. I have already got £50 of the money put by, and will pay myself back for the rest at £20 per week out of the £70. The trick will be not to buy anything else until I have sorted this out!!

Hope everyone has a good day - hugs to all those in need, and have a great time, to anyone snowed in - throw a snowball for me!

Lilo

Blairweech

ThriftyLass - So sorry about our pregnancy x

Shaz - Check out The Credit Crunch Cookbook (from your library of course!

I am snowed in. It's hardly snowing at all here but I have to go up a massive great hill to get to work, which seems to be under a blizzard. Just tried, got stuck and after wrestling with the car and being pulled out by tractor, I thought I do not want to go to work. I have told them I will try again at 12 but hopefully will not get far

Got to update my spending diary and my sig, then I will try and make space in the freezer.

Skint_Lynne

I am really sorry for you and your OH thriftylass. It has happened to my SIL and brother before so I understand a bit what you are going through. Take care of yourselves xx

bails

We've had lots of snow here and it's still snowing slightly. I'm still hoping to get to Birmingham today - M4 is closed at mo but should be reopening soon and apparently it's much better further north. I'm going to get ready and see how things are then.

Have a good weekend everyone, may catch up with you x

xnatalie81x

BOY HAVE I CHANGED

My Tesco order did not come so i needed to go buy food as i was starving. Now usually i would have spent £100's and as sons trainers now have holes in i needed new school shoes too and a charger for my broken phone.

I spent £39 including a mobile charger and school shoes! Pre Jan i would have spent £60 on food £10-20 on shoes then felt guilty and bought the other 2 kids summit and myself lol. = £100-150!

As it stands i bought
a cereal bowl for dd £1
school shoes £4.50 (yeah i know lol)
a charger £5
food £the rest

I didn't just buy junk food like i would have either - heinz soups 4 for £2 (i make pasta bake with them and that is 8p cheaper per can than tesco's, value crisps, value biscuits and other non-crap!

Very pleased and proud of self

xnatalie81x

O YEAH AND my letter came from RBS to say 'we will accept 130 in full and final settlement of the above account' wahoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Kittikins

Wilko's is doing 4 packs of Hein$ tomato soup for £1 at the mo, think I might have to stock up.......oh no, forgetting that I need to use up all my dented tins first.

Yay to nat on the RBS success

I'm tidying up my cupboards/under the beds today as DD is at grandparents and I don't work - and otherwise, I'd only go out to the cinema or something spendy, and have just found some lovely wool that I was given ages ago. Maybe I'll try and knit DD a jumper - might have to do it in sizes bigger, it'll take me that long

cw18

((hugs)) for Thriftylass


Well, I'm having my first attempt in many, many years at making a pie..... had some chicken shreds that needed using, a tin of condensed chicken soup in the cupboards, and loads of mushrooms in the freezer. DS doesn't much appreciate pie, but will eat C&M at a pinch - though he always complains they "don't have enough filling". So I bought some ready rolled pastry last night (making my own was pushing it one step too far for a first, and it was down to 41p in Whoopsie else I'd have been using the rest to make something other than pie!), and am trying to make a deep one.

The filling looks OK, but the pastry is looking like a total disaster :eek: Lined the tin with silicone (I can never get pastry out of tin even if I grease it ), put the pastry in, moulded to the tin, trimmed back (leaving some excess), started to put ceramic peas in without another lining (whoops!, but caught myself in time so there weren't too many to fish out), lined the pastry, put the ceramic peas in, and the pastry promptly disappeared half way down the sides of the tin :mad: It's now just finished the 'blind bake' (I hope - first time I've ever done this), so will have to go and investigate whether it's useable in a minute.......

Skint_Lynne

carbootcrazy wrote: »

Bails I'm not one for revenge as a rule but so agree with Skint Lynne on this one. Do you have room in your garden for bonfires? A nice black smoky one when he's put a big line of (preferrably white) washing out should do the trick nicely:whistle:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

We have neighbours who light their barbecue when they have their washing hanging on the line. Everyone else brings theirs in when they see the billows of smoke coming, their clothes must stink. Good shout carbootcrazy!!!

I'm feeling a bit rough today, my head is banging, so will take some fizzers to get rid of it. Trying to get stuff sorted in here and I must get my spends up to date. I'm away all next week, so hopefully will not spend much as they should pay for all of my expenses:D .

glendam

Thriftylass sorry to hear your sad news please take care of yourself.
Glenda